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Scott Darling

#33 · Goalie · Carolina Hurricanes

Born Dec 22, 1988 in Newport News, Virginia, USA · 6'5", 226 lb · Catches left · Drafted 153rd overall in 2007 by PHX (round 6)

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Stanley Cup NHL Champion 2014-15

Compare with a similar player

The goalies closest to him in games played in 2016-17. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Louis Domingue ARI · 31 GP, 0.908 Antti Raanta NYR · 30 GP, 0.922 Carter Hutton STL · 30 GP, 0.913 Chad Johnson CGY · 36 GP, 0.910 Jaroslav Halak NYI · 28 GP, 0.915

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

0102030402014-15: 14 games1414-152015-16: 29 games2915-162016-17: 32 games3216-172017-18: 43 games4317-182018-19: 8 games818-19

Games played by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save % Cap hit
2014-15 CHI 14 419 392 27 0.936
2015-16 CHI 29 784 717 67 0.915 $588K
2016-17 CHI 32 877 810 67 0.924 $588K
2017-18 CAR 43 1171 1040 131 0.888 $4.15M
2018-19 CAR 8 233 206 27 0.884 $4.15M
5 seasons Career 126 3484 3165 319 0.908

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save %
2014-15 CHI 5 171 160 11 0.936
1 season Playoffs 5 171 160 11 0.936

2016-17 season totals

GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save % Goals against per game
32 877 810 67 0.924 2.09

Contract

$588KCap hitends in 2017, then UFA
$44KCap dollars per goal above replacement13.3 goals above replacement
$3.5MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
+$2.9MValueworth less cap hit

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 53 ranked goalies whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. It runs through 2016-17, so this is its last season, after which he is an unrestricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2016-17 $588K

Each season left on the contract. Only its cap hit and its end are known: how the pay is split by season, and any signing bonus, are not.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2017-18 to 2020-21 $4.15M
2015-16 to 2016-17 $588K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2016-17 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2016-17 analytics

Rating

+13.3Goals above replacement20th of 53 goalies
+2.2Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
+5.9Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 53 ranked goalies: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. Goals above average is coloured as it is under Shots faced below, where it is taken per 60 minutes.

The goals he saved for his team, compared with a spare-part goalie facing the same shots. A goalie's season is about one-third the goalie and two-thirds chance, so read one year lightly. Provisional: under 40 games it is more chance than player. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

-20-10010202014-152015-162016-172017-182018-19Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

Shots faced

Expected goals adds up how likely each shot he faced was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. A goalie who lets in fewer than that has saved goals above expected. Only shots taken while he was in net count, and the league's goalies as a whole come out at zero. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones. What these numbers mean

+5.9Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
72.9Expected goals againstfrom 1,145 unblocked attempts
67Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.924Save %0.917 expected from his shots

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 55 goalies who played enough to be ranked: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. The two goals against tiles are left plain, since they follow how much he played.

Goals saved +0.21 above expected per 60 minutes71st
Shot difficulty 6.4% chance per attempt faced64thA higher bar means his team gives up more dangerous shots.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 55 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest this season.

0204060Game 10Game 20Game 30Expected 72.9Allowed 67

The goals he was expected to let in and the goals he did, as the season went on. When the allowed line runs below the expected line, he is saving more than his shots were worth.

Where he was shot at

Every unblocked attempt he faced this season, with his net on the right. Darker red means more attempts from that spot, and each dot is a goal. "Show every shot" switches to a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result Shots against Saves Goals against Save % TOI
Apr 4, 2017 @ COL L 3-4 (OT) 51 47 4 0.922 61:56
Mar 27, 2017 @ TBL L 4-5 (OT) 30 25 5 0.833 64:25
Mar 25, 2017 @ FLA L 0-7 6 3 3 0.500 15:01
Mar 21, 2017 vs VAN L 4-5 (OT) 5 4 1 0.800 18:54
Mar 19, 2017 vs COL W 6-3 25 22 3 0.880 60:00
Mar 16, 2017 @ OTT W 2-1 34 33 1 0.971 59:52
Mar 1, 2017 vs PIT W 4-1 37 36 1 0.973 60:00
Feb 26, 2017 vs STL W 4-2 32 30 2 0.938 59:26
Feb 19, 2017 @ BUF W 5-1 26 25 1 0.962 59:14
Feb 11, 2017 @ EDM W 5-1 31 30 1 0.968 60:00
Jan 26, 2017 vs WPG L 3-5 32 28 4 0.875 59:01
Jan 20, 2017 @ BOS W 1-0 30 30 0 1.000 59:57
Jan 13, 2017 @ WSH L 0-6 4 3 1 0.750 11:49
Jan 6, 2017 vs CAR W 2-1 40 39 1 0.975 60:00
Dec 30, 2016 @ CAR L 2-3 28 25 3 0.893 58:08
Dec 20, 2016 vs OTT L 3-4 30 26 4 0.867 57:02
Dec 18, 2016 vs SJS W 4-1 34 33 1 0.971 60:00
Dec 17, 2016 @ STL W 6-4 27 23 4 0.852 60:00
Dec 15, 2016 @ NYI W 5-4 32 28 4 0.875 60:00
Dec 13, 2016 @ NYR W 2-1 34 33 1 0.971 60:00
Dec 11, 2016 vs DAL W 3-1 24 23 1 0.958 60:00
Dec 9, 2016 vs NYR L 0-1 (OT) 37 36 1 0.973 60:55
Dec 6, 2016 vs ARI W 4-0 22 22 0 1.000 60:00
Dec 4, 2016 vs WPG L 1-2 32 30 2 0.938 58:17
Dec 3, 2016 @ PHI L 1-3 30 27 3 0.900 58:28
Nov 26, 2016 @ LAK L 1-2 (OT) 29 27 2 0.931 61:02
Nov 19, 2016 @ VAN W 4-3 (OT) 27 24 3 0.889 63:46
Nov 15, 2016 @ WPG L 0-4 2 2 0 1.000 11:17
Nov 11, 2016 vs WSH L 2-3 (OT) 1 1 0 1.000 01:18
Nov 6, 2016 vs DAL W 4-3 (OT) 35 32 3 0.914 64:30
Oct 22, 2016 vs TOR W 5-4 (SO) 34 30 4 0.882 64:17
Oct 15, 2016 vs NSH W 5-3 36 33 3 0.917 60:00